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Quasilocal Energy-Momentum for Geometric Gravity Theories

Chiang-Mei Chen, James M. Nester, Roh Suan Tung

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9411048

Abstract

From a covariant Hamiltonian formulation, using symplectic ideas, we obtain covariant quasilocal energy-momentum boundary expressions for general gravity theories. The expressions depend upon which variables are fixed on the boundary, a reference configuration and a displacement vector field. We consider applications to Einstein's theory, black hole thermodynamics and alternate spinor expressions.

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